Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

We are the choices we make.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal.

The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

She kissed him like he was a warrior

Fewer than half of churchgoers, including born-again Christians, felt strongly that their church demonstrates unconditional love.

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

With sales stabilizing, we should go back to positive price growth early next year.

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.